picklethepug

Posted Apr-3-2012 By

asylumta2

@asylumta2 yep, there two groups, "Smashers" that use a club like appendage to kill, and "Slashers" that wield sharpened spines like knives. They are interesting, but I have a 200 gallon reef tank and would never put one of those beasts in there. It would kill every fish I have within a month and I'd never be able to put my hand in to clean it again.

Posted Apr-3-2012 By

bostonbakedbean

Posted Apr-3-2012 By

wyo112

Not knowing what it could do, I made the mistake of grabbing one of these guys on a scalloping dive. It looked like a lobster without claws. Had I not been wearing gloves, it might have done a fair bit of damage.

Posted Apr-3-2012 By

The Melody Factory

We have 3 coulour receptors in our eyes which allow us to "see" our world.
The midband region of the mantis shrimp's eye is made up of six rows of specialized ommatidia. Four rows carry 16 differing sorts of photoreceptor pigments, 12 for colour sensitivity, others for colour filtering. The mantis shrimp has such good eyes it can perceive both polarized light and hyperspectral colour vision. Their eyes (both mounted on mobile stalks and constantly moving about independently of each othMore..er) are similarly variably coloured and are considered to be the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom.
They permit both serial and parallel analysis of visual stimuli.Less..